{"id":238640,"date":"2019-05-08T14:45:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T18:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=238640"},"modified":"2020-07-12T14:48:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T18:48:59","slug":"texas-republican-says-vaccines-are-sorcery-claims-parental-rights-are-more-important-than-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/texas-republican-says-vaccines-are-sorcery-claims-parental-rights-are-more-important-than-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Republican says vaccines are \u2018sorcery,\u2019 claims \u2018parental rights\u2019 are more important than science"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Impressive that in 2019 some people in the US still believe in \u201csorcery\u201d. That says a lot about the level of anti-vax people\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>An anti-vaxxer Texas lawmaker is facing criticism for attacking a prominent vaccinologist and branding inoculations &#8220;sorcery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Republican Rep. Jonathan Stickland\u2014who left the hardline conservative Freedom Caucus last week\u2014began a Twitter spat with Peter Hotez, a professor at the Baylor College of Medicine, on Tuesday, the Houston Chronicle reported.<\/p>\n<p>Hotez had been lamenting an increase in vaccine exemptions, which he said put children &#8220;in harm&#8217;s way for the financial gain of special and outside interest groups.&#8221; But Stickland accused Hotez of hypocrisy and suggested that parental rights to reject vaccinations were paramount.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/anti-vaxx-texas-republicans-sorcery-jonathan-stickland-parental-rights-1418960?utm_source=Facebook&amp;utm_campaign=NewsweekFacebookSF&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;fbclid=IwAR0OpS0v0f8ifyMWDVZvpym2y00eP0nCzw2ls8t7XG20tVAFCfu-0_8DcGI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/anti-vaxx-texas-republicans-sorcery-jonathan-stickland-parental-rights-1418960?utm_source=Facebook&amp;utm_campaign=NewsweekFacebookSF&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;fbclid=IwAR0OpS0v0f8ifyMWDVZvpym2y00eP0nCzw2ls8t7XG20tVAFCfu-0_8DcGI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Impressive that in 2019 some people in the US still believe in \u201csorcery\u201d. That says a lot about the level of anti-vax people\u2026 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":238641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}